Medicinal product



Patented May it 1927.

MEDICINAL PRODUCT.

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In many liquid medicinal products, ethyl alcohol has heretofore been used as a solvent and preservative. The use of alcohol for these purposes is, however, now objected to and my invention has for its object to pro vide, for such uses, a substitute for alcohol.

I have discovered that in many medicinal products, there canbe substituted for alcohol, glycerine or derivatives of glycerine or mixtures of glycerine and its derivatives.

As types of medicinal products in which glycerine or glycerine products functionate in place of alcohol, are liquid tonics, sarsaparilla compounds, cough syrups, bitters, laxatives, female remedies (so-called), kidney remedies, cod liver extracts, antiseptic soluill tions for douches, liniments, mouth washes. gargles, hair tomes, toilet waters, bay rums, etc. a

By medicinal products I mean to desig nate products commonly known as tracts and tinctures.

A fluid extract is a preparatlon made by removing from a vegetable drug its essential or medicinally active constitutents capable of use as remedial agents by means of a liquid. The valuable components of the drug dissolve in the liquid and are thereby separated from the insoluble and useless portions. I The dissolving; liquid; called the solvent, is usually alcohol, Fluid extracts are not to be confused with flavoriug extracts, which consist of some volatile oil or flavoring principle dissolved in alcohol. Flavoring extracts are products of the food industry, and are made ordinarily by simply adding the proper proportion of the pure oil or flavoring compound to the pure alcohol. (Vanilla extract differs in its mode of preparation and conforms more nearly to a true fluid extract.)

Fluid ext acts ordinarily are adjusted so that a pint of the finished extract represents one pound of the crude material used. A

tincture is similar in character, but is usual ly only one tenth as strong, and may be obtained in the same way or by diluting the fluid extract.

Fluid, extract of ginger and tincture of ginger are employed for both medicinal and culinary purposes. They are employed as medicine for their stomachic effect. serving tostimulate the circulation of the blood vessels in the walls of the stomach, thereby tending to bring about an increased secretion of gastric juice, which aids the appe- Application filed January 30, 1920. Serial No. 355,152.

tite and the digestion. diaphorctic, that is, itstimulates perspiration and is a :r'avorite remedy to break up a cold.

The scope of my invention will be best understood from a statement of the various types of medicaments or medicinal products.

to which it has been applied.

F or example, glycerine .maybe used as an effective substitute for alcohol in making bitter tonics containing burdock root; cascara; juniper berries; poke root; mandrake;

Ginger is also a sassairas; ginger; celery seed; prickly ash bark; extract of licorice; barberry root bark; berberis aquifolium; senega root; s0

diun'i bicarbonate; sodium benzoate and a. suitable quantity of 30 percent glycerine being used as the solvent. I

A cough syrup may be made mullein; pipsissewa; horehound; blood root;

from lobelia;

pleurisy root; skunk cabbage; ,elecan'ipane;v boneset; sugar; SOdlHHlbQIlZOEItG and a suitable quantity of 15 percent glycerine'being used as a solvent. i

A so-called female tonic may be made from carduus benedictus; Viburnum prunifolium; blue cohosh; gentian; chirata; angostura; centaury; American. ipecac; sodium beuzoate and a suitable quantity of 25 percent glycerine being used as a solvent.

A. cod livcr extract tonic may be made from. hypophosphorous acid; calcium hypophosphite; sodium hypophosphite; salicylic acid; extract of codliver oil; flavor and a suitable quantity of 10 percent glycerine being; used.

some medicinal. conipounds contain essential oils and other substances, insoluble in water or g 'lycerine, such as chloroform, menthol, camphor, thymol, and the like. Sub stances of this kind may be designated, for the purposes of this case, as insoluble organic medicaments. In such compounds, I use, in combination with or instead of glycerine, glycerine derivatives such as those in which the glycerine molecule has been esterified by certain inorganic acids such as the halogen acids, or by organic acids such as acetic acid and other acids of the acetic series and halogen derivatives of these acids. Thus glycerol chlorhydrin, C,,H,O Cl an example of an inorganic acid ester. Glycerol nlonoacetic ester, C H O, and monochloraceticmonoglyceride Cl H O Cl are examples of organic acid esters.

These glycerine derivatives dissolve many insoluble organic medicaments, which are difficultly soluble or insoluble in glycerine. The solutions are miscible with water, have fungicidal properties; and are non-poisonous.

Examples of medicinal products in which these glycerine derirativcs may be used are as follows A bay-rum formula is as follows:

Oil of bay, 8 c.; oil of orange, 0.5 c. 0.; oil of pimento 0.5 c. c.; monochloraceticmonoglyceride 600 c. c.; and water 4:00 0. c.

mouth wash formula is as follows Zinc chloride 2 grams; heta naphthol 0.5 grams; formaldehyde (3- drops; menthol 0.2 grams; methyl salicylate l c. 0.; colored with amaranth; in 500 c. c. of 50 per cent glycerol chlorhydrin or monochloraccticmonoglyceride.

Another mouth wash or gargle formula is as follows:

Boric acid 25 grams; thymol 1 gram; eucalyptolb c. 0.; methyl salicylate 1.2 c. c.; thyme oil 0.3 c. 0.; menthol 1 grain; sodium saiicylate 1.2 grams; sodium henzoate (i grams;'in percent monochloraceticmonoglyceride; or in a menstruuni of 5 percent glycerol chlorhy' drin, to percent glycerine and 50 percent water.

A liniment formula is as follows:

Iodine & grams; chloroform 125 c. c.; camphor 30 grams; rosemary oil 15 c. 0.; lavender oil 15 c. c.; aconite extract 4 grams; and monochloraceticmonoglyceride 700 c. c.

will he understood that the examples of medicaments above given are illustrative in character; and may be Widely modified with out departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim 1. "is new products fluid extracts and tinctures comprising a vegetable drug used a rei'nedial agent and a lnilogen-containiiig ester of glycerine.

2. is new products fluid extracts and tinctures comprising a 'egetablc drug used a ren'iedial agent and a halogen organic acid ester of glycerine.

3. its new products, fluid extracts and tinctures coi'i'iprising-a vegetable drug used as a remedial agent and a halogen acetic a kl ester of glycerine.

s new; products, :fluid extracts and tinctures comprising a vegetable drug used as a remedial agent and a chloracetic acid ester of glyccrine.

As new products, fluid extracts and tinctures comprising a vegetable drug used as a remedia agent and nionochlorac ticmonoglyceride.

in testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

HENRY C. FULLER. 

